Elite sport career processes : Analyze of a theoretical platform about career-transition-related factors based on deductive and inductive logic

The general aims of the study in this report is to: · analyze a theoretical platform about career-transition-related factors based on deductive and inductive logic through the results of nomothetic and idiographic studies. · argue that theoretical models can be re-oriented and restored through dialectical analysis. · describe and promote an extended theoretical model in order to understand career development aspects in sport. · contribute with research that generates conceptual understanding. In the results in the studies, it was stated that both evidence and rejections shaped new understandings. The key finding in the empiric studies showed that the concept career development before, during and after the elite sport must be considered to be a process for maintaining lifelong learning and development, both inside and outside sport. Another finding was that transition from sport strongly relates with the adjustment tools and strategies and these adjustment processes were not straightforward, but complex. In general, the respondents verified the content about social and environmental perspectives and stressed the importance of preparing for a post-sport life and maintaining contacts useable for lifelong development. The model in its structure and by the content of the inherent concepts, formulate theoretical issues given by deductive analysis that emerge from transition processes in sport. In the presentation of the results in the studies, it was stated that both evidence and rejections shaped new understandings.